What’s Going On (UK)
Film
April 26, 2 p.m.
London, Barbican
Helvetica (12A)
An eye-opening documentary about typography and global visual culture, in celebration of the fiftieth birthday of the world’s most popular font.
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Talks
April 13, 7.30 p.m.
London, Queen Elizabeth Hall
Enchanted Endings: Salman Rushdie and Lisa Appignanesi
One of world literature’s leading voices, Rushdie discusses his latest novel The Enchantress of Florence, strong female protagonists and the role of the imagination in fiction with writer Lisa Appignanesi.
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Exhibitions
April 1 – August 17
London, V&A
Certain Trees: The Constructed Book, Poem and Object
British poets and artists explore the act of publication as art process: an exhibition at the V&A which shows the influence 1960s Concrete Poetry and the Scottish poet, artist and landscape-gardener Ian Hamilton Finlay.
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April 15 – June 29
London, V&A
Blood on Paper: The Art of the Book
At a time when the notion of the book is challenged by the screen and computer, this exhibition aims to show the extraordinary ways in which printed matter has been treated by leading artists. Book-inspired art and art-inspired books by Matisse, Picasso, Anish Kapoor, Louise Bourgeois, Damien Hirst, Robert Rauschenberg and many others.
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Festivals and Fairs
February – June
Norwich
UEA International Literature Festival
The University of East Anglia’s spring literary festival features Junot Díaz, Robert Macfarlane, Louis de Bernières, Posy Simmonds, Isabel Allende, Alan Sillitoe and many other leading writers.
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March 31 – April 6
Oxford
The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival
This year’s festival features 250 writers including Francis Fukuyama, Julian Barnes, P. D. James, William Boyd, Philip Pullman, Hanif Kureishi, Ruth Rendell and Ben Okri.
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April 1 – May 1
Liverpool
Poetry in the City
Liverpool celebrates its status as Europe’s Capital of Culture with a month-long poetry festival featuring slam poetry, open mics, workshops, games and installations.
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April 11 – April 13
London, South Bank
International PEN Festival of World Literature
This year sees the first ever International PEN Festival of World Literature with a series of events spread over a long weekend on London’s South Bank.
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April 14 – 16
London, Earl's Court Exhibition Centre
London Book Fair 2008
The London Book Fair is the global publishing community’s leading spring forum for booksellers, publishers, librarians, agents and authors.
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